Re: Fedora Core 2/Windows XP dual boot: selecting Linux doesn't work

g.devries@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Eric Moors wrote:
>> Your grub.conf looks like this you say:
>>
>> default=0
>> timeout=10
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
>> root(hd0,0)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
>> title Other
>> rootnoverify(hd1,0)
>> chainloader +1
>>
>>
>> I am not sure this is correct, but it most likely depends on your BIOS
>> settings. I suspect that hdc is hd1 whereas hde is hd0.

He is correct (I thought I posted all this earlier, but the goblins
must have eaten it).

>> Try changing them.

> Yes, it's odd that the hard disk I installed later should be hdc/hd0.

It's false - hd0 is your boot device. Look in your bios and tell us
which your boot device is. I suspect you have got them the wrong way
round.

> But I checked in device.map, and there it says hd0 is hdc, and hd1 is
> hde. I still tried to change them, but to no avail (as expected).

Try harder. (Don't say "try", tell us what you DID). I would imagine
that hd0 is hde from your symptoms, so you need to install grub again.
Editing a file will do nothing.

> I wonder if I should change the cables that attach the two disks to the
> motherboard?

Stop wondering. The answer is "don' be daf', mon". If you have your bios
set to boot from hde, then that is hd0 to grub, I believe. And you WANT
to boot from hde, don't you? You WANT the windows bootloader tobe
first.


Peter
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